Here’s Why There Is No Such Thing As “Radical” Islam

No one should be surprised by the tragic shooting in Orlando. No one should be surprised that the shooter was an Islamist praised by ISIS. Nor should anyone be surprised of his father’s connection to the Taliban.

What Americans should expect is violence, because violence is an integral part of Islam.

A while ago, comedian Bill Maher said Islam is:

“the only religion that acts like the Mafia, that will kill you if you say the wrong thing, draw the wrong picture, or write the wrong book.”

And one of his guests, Ben Affleck replied that Maher’s view was “gross and racist.” However, both are wrong in their understanding and characterization of Islam.

First, racism has nothing to do with religion. Affleck needs to read a dictionary.

Racism involves hatred or intolerance towards another ethnicity. Religion generally encompasses a set of beliefs that contain a moral code defining behavior and a particular worldview. Any person of any race can practice any religion they so choose. Muslims of all races practice Islam, just as ethnicities among Christians are diverse. There is no single race that practices a religion.

Second, the widely used terms “radical extremists” or “Islamic Fundamentalists” are misnomers. There are no such Muslims.

Third, Islam is not a peaceful religion. Maher’s analogy to the mafia is inaccurate; the Mafia’s purpose is power, greed, and profiting from illegal operations perpetrated through violence.

Their goal is not worldwide totalitarian rule.

Muslims commit violence because they are following Muhammad and the Qur’an. Islam, literally translated, means “submission” to Allah—or death.

The Qur’an, Hadith, and the Sunnah all clearly articulate that Islam is a political ideology designed to implement worldwide totalitarian rule through Shari’a Law.

The earliest, most comprehensive, and widely respected biography about Muhammad, written by Ibn Ishaq, Sira of Ibn Ishaq reveals that Muhammad and his followers were brutally violent.

Muslims who claim Islam is peaceful are following taqqiya, Qur’an-instructed deceit, or not following the Qur’an at all. As Abu Ad-Darda, Muhammad’s companion explained,

“we can smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them.”

In Muhammad’s biography, Ishaq describes Muhammad’s order to torture and behead Kinana b. al-Rabi’. Muhammad then took Kinana’s wife Safiya and consummated his marriage to her within 24 hours of killing her father and husband (English transl. p. 511-517).

The Hadith tells of Muhammad’s soldiers who raped “some excellent Arab women” because they “were suffering from the absence of [their] wives.” Muhammad told them it didn’t matter if they practiced ‘azl because “every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born” (Sahih Muslim Book 008, Number 3371).

And in his fifties, Muhammad added to his many wives by marrying six-year old Aisha, with whom he consummated his marriage three years later. (Sahih al-Bukhari Vol. 7, Book 62, Number 64, 65, 88; Volume 5, Book 58, Number 236).

Led by Pakistani Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, the camps are guised as part of a tax-exempt organization, Muslims of America Inc. Americans and non-Americans at Jamaat ul-Fuqra camps are taught how to use weapons (illegal, un-registered, un-licensed AK-47 rifles, rocket launchers, machine guns, and C4 explosives), how to kidnap and kill Americans, and how to conduct sabotage and subversive operations.

The question remains: Why are Islamists in America not being deported?

Bethany Blankley is the Senior Editor for Constitution.com. Her syndicated show, "America's Betrayal," can be heard on Conservative Review Radio, WAAR Radio, and other talk radio stations. Her columns have been published by The Washington Times, Newsday, Western Journalism, Townhall, The Christian Post, Charisma News, and others. She was a former communications strategist to four Senators, one Congressman, one New York governor, and several nonprofits. She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in Theology and Political Science. Follow her: @bethanyblankley & www.bethanyblankley.com.

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